Deep Dive Series: THE COMING REVOLUTION IN DIGITAL MONEY, March 11, 2021
- Hiromi Yamaoka: Former Director-General of the Bank of Japan’s Payment and Settlement Systems Department and an internationally-acknowledged authority on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)
- Sayuri Shirai: Professor of Economics, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University and a former member of the Bank of Japan's Policy Board
- Naoyoki Iwashita: Professor of monetary economics and FinTech in the graduate programme for public policy studies at Kyoto University and Advisor for the crypto-asset task force at the Financial Services Agency
Book Break: Yu Miri, February 25, 2021
- Yu Miri: author of "Tokyo Ueno Station" - Winner of Akutagawa Prize and U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature
Deep Dive Series - CLIMATE CHANGE – IS JAPAN CRISIS-READY?, February 24, 2021
- Dr. Naoko Ishii: professor, executive vice president, and inaugurating Director of the Centre for Global Commons at the University of Tokyo and former Deputy Vice Minister of Finance of Japan
- David J. Semaya: Executive Chairman and Representative Director of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co. Ltd., Tokyo, and former Executive Chairman of Nikko Asset Management in London and Tokyo
- Jesper Koll: Senior Advisor to fund management group WisdomTree and formerly Chief Strategist and Head of Research for US investment banks J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch.